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Harry (Harjinder) Singh

A Sikh immigrant from India speaks out

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Wasn’t Christopher Columbus technically an illegal immigrant? What about scores of Europeans who followed him in boats without visas to found and build America? Immigrants are the foundation of this country and provide us with brainpower. We don’t bring immigrants to add diversity, it’s to increase innovation, fill jobs, and to lift the economy. My path to getting where I am now is a classic example of an immigrant’s journey to America. I arrived in the United States in 1991 from a village in Punjab, India at age 21, bringing with me two main things: passion and obsession. After working for IBM
Build a wallMasterCard CEO Ajay BangaU.S. United Nations Ambassador Nikki HaleyGet Data Sheet, ’s technology newsletterHarry (Harjinder) Singh is co-founder and president of ShieldX Networks, a cybersecurity company in San Jose, Calif. The views he expressed in this article are his opinons, and not those of his company.
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